The Handbook of the History of Logic
Last revised August 14, 2008

This is a multi-volume Handbook to be published by Elsevier under the editorship of
Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods.
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  • Vol. 1 -- Greek, Indian, and Arabic Logic
  • Published
  • Vol. 2 -- Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic
  • Published
  • Vol. 3 -- The Rise of Modern Logic: Leibniz to Frege
  • Published
  • Vol. 4 -- British Logic in the Nineteenth Century
  • Published
  • Vol. 5 -- Logic from Russell to Church
  • Published
  • Vol. 6 -- Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century
  • Published
  • Vol. 7 -- Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century
  • Published
  • Vol. 8 -- The Many Valued and Non-monotonic Turn in Logic
  • Published

  • Published
  • Vol. 11 -- Logic: A History of its Central Concepts
  • In Production

 

 

Volume 1 ---  Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic
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Chapter Name

Author

Status

1

Logic before Aristotle

Julius Moravcsik

Received – 26 pp

2

Aristotle's Early Logic

John Woods &
Andrew Irvine

Received –100 pp

3

Aristotle's Later Logic

George Boger

Received – 99 pp

4

Aristotle's Modal Logic

Fred Johnson

Received –

5

Indian Logic

Jonardon Ganeri

Received – 66 pp

6

Megarian and Stoic Logic

R.E. Jennings & 
R.R. O'Toole

Received – 146 pp

7

Arabic Logic

Tony Street

Received – 76 pp

8

The Translation of Arabic Works on Logic Into Latin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Charles Burnett

Received – 7 pp


FEB 5, 2004 NOTIFICATION BY PUBLISHER THAT VOLUME IS NOW IN PRINT




 

Volume 2 --- Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic
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Chapter Title/Topic

Author

Status

1

Logic before 1100: The Latin Tradition

John Marenbon

Confirmed

2

Logic at the Turn of the Twelfth Century

John Marenbon

Confirmed

3

The Logic of Abelard and His Contemporaries

Ian Wilks

Confirmed

4

The Development of Supposition Theory in the Later 12th and Early 13th Centuries

Terence Parsons

Confirmed

5

Assimilation of Aristotelian and Arabic Logic up to the Later 13th Century

Henrik Lagerlund

Confirmed

6

Logic and Theories of Meaning in the Late 13th and Early 14th Century

Including the Modistae

Ria van der Lecq

Confirmed

7

The Nominalist Semantics of William Ockham and John Buridan

Gyula Klima

Confirmed

8

Logic in the 14th Century after Ockham

Catarina Dutilh-Novaes

Confirmed

9

Treatments of Modal and Other “Opaque” Contexts in Mediaeval Logic

Simo Knuuttila

Confirmed

10

Treatments of the Paradoxes of Self-reference

Mikko Yrjonsuuri

Confirmed

11

Developments in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Jennifer Ashworth

Confirmed

12

Relational Logic of Juan Caramuel

Petr Dvorak

Confirmed

13

Port Royal: The Stirrings of Modernity

Russell Wahl

Confirmed

 


Volume 3 --- The Rise of Modern Logic I: Leibniz to Frege
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Chapter Title/Topic

Author 

Status

1

Leibniz's Logic 

Wolfgang Lenzen

Received – 62 pp

2

Kant's Logic 

Mary Tiles 

Received – 43 pp

3

Hegel's Logic

John W. Burbidge

Received – 29 pp

4

Bolzano's Logic 

Rolf George &
Paul Rusnock

Received – 27 pp

5

Algebraic Logic: 1685-1900

Theodore Hailperin

Received – 90 pp

6

The Algebra of Logic

Victor Sanchez Valencia

Received –  102 pp

7

The Mathematical Turn in Logic

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Received – 11 pp

8

Schroeder's Logic

Volker Peckhaus

Received – 53 pp

9

Peirce's Logic

Risto Hilpinen

Received –  46 pp

10

Husserl's Logic

Richard Tieszen

Recieved –  120 pp

11

Frege's Logic

Peter Sullivan

Received –  99 pp


Mar 15, 2004 NOTIFICATION BY PUBLISHER THAT VOLUME IS NOW IN PRINT

 




 
Volume 4 --- British Logic in the Nineteenth Century
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Chapter Title/Topic

Author

Status

1

Bentham’s Logic

Charissa Varma and Gordon McOuat

Confirmed

2

Coleridge’s Logic

Timothy Milnes

Confirmed

3

Whately’s Logic

James Van Evra

Confirmed

4

Hamilton’s Logic

Ralph Jessop

Confirmed

5

Whewell’s Logic

Laura Snyder

Confirmed

6

Mill’s Logic

Fred Wilson

Confirmed

7

DeMorgan’s Logic

Michael Hobart & Joan Richards

Confirmed

8

Boole’s Logic

Dale Jacquette

Confirmed

9

French Logique and British Logic: On the Origins of Augustus deMorgan early Logical Enquiries 1805-1835

Maria Panteki

Confirmed

10

Lewis Carroll’s Logic

Amirouche Moktefi

Confirmed

11

Venn’s Logic

James Van Evra

Confirmed

12

Jevon’s Logic

Bert Mosselmans and Ard Van Moer

Confirmed

13

MacColl’s Logic

Shahid Rahman

Confirmed

14

The Idealists

David Sullivan

Confirmed

15

Bradley’s Logic

William J. Mander

Confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

 Volume 5 --- Logic from Russell to Church
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 Chapter Topics

Author

Status

1

Russell’s Logic

Andrew Irvine

Confirmed

2

Meinongian Logic

Dale Jacquette

Confirmed

3

The Logic of Brouwer and Heyting

Joan Moschovakis

Confirmed

4

Skolem’s Logic

Jens Erik Fensted and Hao Wang

Confirmed

5

Herbrand’s Logic

Jörg Siekmann, Christoph Benzmüller and Serge Autexier

Confirmed

6

The Logic of Wittgenstein and Ramsey

Michael Potter

Confirmed

7

Lesniewski’s Logic

Peter Simons

Confirmed

8

Hilbert’s Logic

Volker Peckhaus and Wilfried Sieg

Confirmed

9

Hilbert’s Epsilon Calculus and its Successors

Hartley Slater

Confirmed

10

Gödel’s Logic

Mark Van Atten and Juliette Kennedy

Confirmed

11

Tarski’s Logic

Keith Simmons

Confirmed

12

Post’s Logic

Alasdair Urquhart

Confirmed

13

Gentzen’s Logic

Jan von Plato

Confirmed

14

Lambda-calculus and Combinatory Logic

F. Cardone and J.R. Hindley

Confirmed

15

The Logic of Curry and Church

Jonathan Seldin

Confirmed

16

Paradoxes in the 20th Century

Andrea Cantini

Confirmed

 

 

 

 


 
Volume 6 --- Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century - co-editor Akihiro Kanamori
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 Chapter Topics

Author

Status

1

Set Theory From Cantor to Cohen

Akihiro Kanamori

Confirmed

2

The Continuum

Juris Steprans

Confirmed

3

Infinite Combinatorics

Jean Larson

Confirmed

4

Forcing and Large Cardinals

Akihiro Kanamori

Confirmed

5

Inner Models for Large Cardinals

William J. Mitchell

Confirmed

6

Determinacy

Paul Larson

Confirmed

7

Singular Cardinals

Menachem Kojman

Confirmed

8

Alternative Set Theories

Thomas Forster, Randall Holmes and Thierry Libert

Confirmed

9

Mereology

Peter Simons

Confirmed

10

Sets, Types, Categories, and Logic

John Bell

Confirmed

11

Categorical Logic

Jean Pierre Marquis and Gonzalo E. Reyes

Confirmed

12

On Russell’s Orders in Modern Logic

Fairouz Kamareddine and Twan Laan

Confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Volume 7 --- Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century
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Chapter Title/Topic

Author

Status

1

Mathematical Modal Logic:  A View of its Evolution

Rob Goldblatt

Received – 105 pp

2

Epistemic Logic

Paul Gochet &
Pascal Gribomont

Received – 99 pp

3

Deontic Logic

Paul McNamara

Received – 93 pp

4

Relevant and Substructural Logics

Greg Restall

Received – 118 pp

5

A.N. Prior's Logic

Peter Ohrstrom &
Per F.V. Hasle

Received – 51 pp

6

Modern Temporal Logic: The Philosophical Background

Peter Ohrstrom &
Per F.V. Hasle

Received – 57 pp

7

The Gamut of Dynamic Logics

Martin Stokhof &
Jan van Eijck

Received – 111 pp

8

Situation Theory and Situation Semantics

Keith Devlin

Received – 64 pp

9

Dialogue Logic

Erik Krabbe

Received – 36 pp




Page Total – ~800 pp




Volume 8 --- The Many Valued and Non-monotonic Turn in Logic
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 Chapter Topics

Author

Status

1

Many-valued Logic

Grzegorz Malinowski

Confirmed

2

Paraconsistent Logic: Preservationist Variations

Bryson Brown

Confirmed

3

Paraconsistent Logic: Dialethic Variations

Graham Priest

Confirmed

4

Quantum Logic

M. Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini & Miklos Rédei

Confirmed

5

Logic of Vagueness

Dominic Hyde

Confirmed

6

Fuzzy Logic

Didier Dubois, Henri Prade & Lluis Godo

Confirmed

7

Non-monotonic Logic

Karl Schlechta

Confirmed

8

Default Logic

Grigoris Antoniou & Kewen Wang

Confirmed

9

Non-monotonic Reasoning and Belief Change

Alexander Bochman

Confirmed

10

Free Logic

Carl Posy

Confirmed




Volume 9 --- Logic and Computation  co-editor Jörg Siekmann
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 Chapter Topics

Author

Status

1

Logic and the Development of the Computer

Martin Davis

Confirmed

2

Logic and Computer Science

Dieter Spreen and Ulrich Berger

Confirmed

3

Logic and Artificial Intelligence

Pat Hayes

Confirmed

4

Automated Deduction

Jorg Siekmann

Confirmed

5

From Proof Assistants to Mathematical Assistant Systems

Freek Wiedijk

John Harrison

Confirmed

6

Automation of Higher Order Logic

Chad Brown and Chris Benzmuller

Confirmed

7

Mechanization of Type Theory

Hermann Geuvers

Confirmed

8

Safety and Security: Verification

 

 

9

Safety and Security: Specification

José Meseguer

Catherine Meadows

Confirmed

10

Description Logics and the Semantic Web

Ian Horrocks and Franz Baader

Confirmed

11

Equational Logics and Rewriting

Claude Kirchner and Helene Kirchner

Confirmed

12

Unification and Constraints

Hubert Comon

Confirmed

13

Mechanization of Induction

J Strother Moore

Confirmed

14

Complexity Theory

Lance Fortnow and Steve Homer

Confirmed

 

 

15

Logic Programming

Peter Schroder-Heister and Jorg Hudelmaier

Confirmed

16

Logic and Computational Linguistics

Patrick Blackburn

confirmed

17

Logic:  LP, Deductive DBs and XPS

 

 

18 History of Degrees Klaus Ambos-Spies and Peter A. Fejer Confirmed

19

Mechanizing Mathematical Creativity

 

 


 

Volume 10 --- Inductive Logic - co-editor Stephan Hartmann
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1 Introduction Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartman and John Woods Confirmed
2 Inductive Thinking Before Hume John Milton Confirmed
3 Hume and the Problem of Induction Marc Lange Confirmed
4 From Whewell to Mill Malcolm Forster Confirmed
5 Peirce on Abduction and Induction Stathis Psillos Confirmed
6 The Modern Epistemic Interpretations of Probability: Logicism and Subjectivism Maria Carla Galovotti Confirmed
7 Popper and Hypothetico-deductivism Alan Musgrave Confirmed
8 Hempel and the Paradoxes of Confirmation Jan Sprenger Confirmed
9 Carnap and the Logic of Induction Sandy Zabell Confirmed
10 The Development of the Hintikka Program Ilkka Niiniluoto Confirmed
11 Reichenbach on Induction and Probability Frederick Eberhardt & Clark Glymour Confirmed
12 Goodman and the Demise of the Syntactic Approach Robert Schwartz Confirmed
13 The Development of Subjective Bayesianism James Joyce Confirmed
14 Varieties of Bayesianism Jonathan Weisberg Confirmed
15 Inductive Reasoning and Empirical Psychology Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater and Ulrike Hahn Confirmed
16 Induction and the Development of Statistical Reasoning Jan-Willem Romeijn Confirmed
17 Statistical Learning Theory Bernhard Schoelkopf Confirmed
18 The Development of Formal Learning Theory Daniel Osherson & Scott Weinstein Confirmed
19 Mechanizing Induction: Logic and Programming and Beyond Hannes Leitgeb and Ronald Ortner Confirmed

 

Volume 11--- Logic: A History of its Central Concepts co-editor Francis Jeffry Pelletier
-- In Production

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Chapter Title/Topic

Author

Status

1

History of the Consequence Relation

Greg Restall & Conrad Asmus

Confirmed

2

History of the Quantifiers

Daniel Bonevac

3

History of Negation

Laurence Horn & J.L. Speranza

Confirmed

4

History of Connectives

Daniel Bonevac & Josh Dever

Confirmed

5

History of Truth-Values

Jean-Yves Beziau

Confirmed

6

History of  Modality

Simo Knuuttila

Confirmed

7

History of Natural Deduction

Jeff Pelletier and Allen Hazen

Confirmed

8

History of Connexivity

Storrs McCall

Confirmed

9

History of Types

Fairouz Kamareddine, Twan Laan and Rob Nederpelt

Confirmed

10

History of the Fallacies

John Woods

Confirmed

11

History of Logic-Diagrams

Amirouche Moktefi and Sun-Joo Shin

Confirmed

 


 

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